The Editors of Prevention - Prevention Diabetes Diet Cookbook: Discover the New Fiber-FULL Eating Plan for Weight Loss

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[Preventions diabetes diet cookbook.] Diabetes diet cookbook : discover the new fiber-full eating plan for weight loss / from the editors of Americas leading healthy lifestyle magazine ; with Ann Fittante.

p. cm.

Includes index.

Direct edition was published as Preventions Diabetes Diet Cookbook in 2007.

ISBN-13 9781594866715 paperback

ISBN-10 1594866716 paperback

eISBN-13 9781605298023

1. DiabetesDiet therapyRecipes. 2. Reducing dietsRecipes. 3. High-fiber dietRecipes. 4. Weight loss. I. Fittante, Ann. II. Prevention (Emmaus, Pa.)

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If you or someone you cook for has recently been diagnosed with diabetes, you may feel very confused. Youre not the only one. According to recent statistics, the number of Americans diagnosed with diabetes has risen to 17.9 million in 2008, reaching epidemic status in the minds of many health professionals. Worse, at least 57 million people over the age of 20 have prediabetes, a condition that puts them at risk for developing diabetes later in life. While its urgent that we educate ourselves on how to prevent and hopefully reverse the damaging effects of this disease, the good news is that what you eat can have a tremendous impact on the way diabetes affects your life.

Consider this book your personalextremely doableroad map to achieving greater vitality and overall health. Unlike many diets, this cookbook emphasizes making a gradual transition to foods you can enjoy forever. If you have type 2 diabetes, youll learn to manage your blood glucose levels by losing excess weight, eating delicious and satisfying whole foods, becoming more physically active, and working with your doctor to find the treatment plan thats best for you. If youre at risk for or have prediabetes, youll find a wealth of small but powerful steps you can take right now to help prevent the disease.

Our Diabetes Diet Cookbook provides you with the information, strategies, and above all the recipes, cooking, and lifestyle tips you need to protect yourself and your loved ones against this growing threat. Youll learn

Smart strategies to adapt not abandon your favorite foods

Positive lifestyle adjustments that will keep your energy levels soaring

How to make intelligent choices so that no foods are off-limits

Dozens of ways to decrease stress, a major factor in the acceleration of diabetes

How to eradicate hunger from your vocabulary

Why pricey diabetic foods are not beneficial and may even be harmful

Prevention is with you every step of the way to help you control your diabetes and enjoy a long, healthy, active life.

Liz Vaccariello

Editor-in-Chief, Prevention

Congratulations! The fact that youre reading this book means that you care deeply about your health and are taking steps to improve it. Yes, improve iteven if youve been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes or prediabetes.

Like most people, you probably werent planning a life with diabetes or prediabetes. No, you most likely had other things on your mindthings like caring for a family and home, paying the bills, volunteering in your community, coaching a youth sports team perhaps. However you fill your days, diabetes was probably not on the agenda.

In fact, odds are you were consumed with taking care of everyone and everything except yourself. That is the first thing that is going to change in your life. Caring for yourself will be the first item on your to do list from this day forward. When you are well, everything else will fall into place.

If left unchecked, diabetes wreaks harm that can progress stealthily, becoming noticeable only once the damage reaches advanced stages. So if you have been newly diagnosed with diabetes, have prediabetes, or are planning and cooking meals for someone with either of these challenges, understanding the disease is critical.

Broadly defined, diabetes is a metabolic disorder that disrupts the way our bodies use the energy from food. During digestion, most of what we eat, particularly carbohydrate, is broken down into glucose, the form of sugar in the blood that provides energy. To reach all of the cells in our bodies, glucose hitches a ride in the bloodstream. But to actually get into the cells to feed them, glucose requires a hormone called insulin that is produced by the pancreas, a small gland situated just behind the stomach.